Treehouse TV, the specialty network for preschoolers aged six and under, is now available as part of Rogers Cable’s On-Demand services.
Parents can pick and choose from a roster top-rated shows for tots such as Nelvana’s Max & Ruby, Timothy Goes to School, Little Bear, Babar, The Berenstain Bears and Corduroy Bear. Because preschoolers like to watch their favourite shows again and again, they can play, pause, stop, forward or replay the program as often as they want using the remote control.

CH is set to air Eyes, a new 13-episode hour-long drama. Eyes, stars Tim Daly and is set in the high tech, high stakes world of a risk management firm filled with agents that will do anything it takes to solve cases. The series will premiere on CH Hamilton, CH Vancouver Island and CH Montreal Wednesday, March 30 at 10 p.m.

CBC is going Coronation Street mad with a 10-week blitz beginning April 4. The show will run two times per night, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Mondays through Wednesdays and Fridays. Mothercorp will also air the previous week’s eps of the popular 44-year-old British soap on Sundays 8 a.m. to noon., except for Sunday April 10 when the telecast is 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.

For those getting a tad tired of the double dose of the Rovers regulars (if that’s possible), the show will return to its usual time-slot of 7:30 p.m. on June 13.

CTV offers up a new sitcom for the family, premised on high school grads who don’t know what’s next in their lives. Life on a Stick follows two life-long friends as they journey down that road together (to a job at the local mall food court) in this 13-episode half-hour series premiering Wednesday, March 23 at 9:30 p.m. Victor Fresco, the writer/producer that brought you Andy Richter Controls the Universe, is behind this co-viewing hopeful.

Sponsored by WestJet, Laker Beer, BMO and CCM, the biggest outdoor hockey game for charity, Our Game to Give, will showcase the talents of over 30 sports personalities as they hit the ice at Hamilton’s Ivor Wynne Stadium.
The game will be broadcast by TSN live on Saturday, April 2 at 7 p.m. and will feature the talents of Mats Sundin, Doug Gilmour, Martin Brodeur and Rob Blake to name a few, as well as Gordie Howe, who will drop the puck. CCM Hockey is showcasing its Reebok hockey line by supplying gear for the hockey glitterati playing the charity event. Proceeds from the game will go to the Canadian Red Cross’ Disaster Relief Fund and Camp Trillium, a camp for children with cancer.

Popcultured With Elvira Kurt aims to put a new spin on entertainment news programming. From Monday to Thursday, at 10 p.m. for a half-hour per night, Kurt will tell it the way that she sees it, bringing her award-winning comedic views to the world of pop culture reporting. This Comedy Network original series will poke fun at our culture’s mass obsession with celebrities, with Kurt portraying an entertainment news host who has snapped and cannot tell a lie.

The Conclave, an ambitious MOW that takes place in Rome in 1458 (five years after the fall of Constantinople to Islam), recently wrapped principal photography. The historical drama, written by Paul Donovan, is based on a secret diary kept by Pope Pius II. It focuses on a young Spanish cardinal and future pope who lives in Rome at a time when the Spanish suffered considerable violence at the hands of Romans.
The $4-million movie is a Canadian treaty copro with Germany in association with CHUM. The international cast boasts Coronation Street vet, Peter Guinness as well as several accomplished theatre actors from across Europe. The film should be completed by mid-June and is shot on HD with a possibility that it will be released as a theatrical feature in time to hit the festival circuit. An announcement regarding the film’s television premiere is being postponed until after the project is completed.

Once the plug was finally pulled on the possibility of even an abbreviated NHL season, sports broadcasters began implementing the final stages of plan B by filling in their spring schedules with replacement players such as racing, basketball, baseball, and junior, international, and vintage hockey.
Media buyers, on the other hand, had their own alternate plans – and they didn’t call for pumping NHL dollars back into other sports programming. While the money pretty much remained with television, it was diverted away from sports and into top-rated prime time shows.